North Carolina –
timber data
Forest inventory for North Carolina from the USDA Forest Service FIA: standing live volume, forest and timberland area, growth and removals, and leading species. Inventory, not price — North Carolina has no single published timber price.
North Carolina forest profile
North Carolina has about 18,592,940 acres of forest land, of which roughly 17,854,302 acres is timberland (forest that can grow at least 20 cu ft/acre/yr of industrial wood and is not reserved). Standing live volume is about 64.2 billion cubic feet, which ranks North Carolina 4 of the 19 states covered on this site. It sits in the US South region.
Net annual growth is about 2,137 million cu ft/yr against removals of 930 million cu ft/yr and mortality of 459 million cu ft/yr — growth comfortably exceeds removals. Leading species: loblolly pine, yellow-poplar, red maple. Source: USDA Forest Service FIA – North Carolina.
Volume = sound total-stem bark and wood volume of live trees at least 5 inches in diameter on forest land (2024 FIA methodology). Growth, removals and mortality are in million cubic feet per year on forest land. Removals include harvest cutting plus land-use and protocol change. These are inventory measures, not prices.
There is no official North Carolina timber price. In practice a sale is priced two ways: stumpage (standing timber "on the stump", before cutting) and delivered or roadside (stumpage plus harvesting and hauling). Prices are usually quoted in $/MBF (thousand board feet) for sawtimber or $/ton for pulpwood and chip-n-saw, and the board-foot figure depends on the log rule (Doyle, Scribner or International 1/4). Because these commercial (private-market) series are licence-restricted, we do not publish a number. Get a current price from your forester, consultant or mill, then use the calculator to estimate value. For federal national-forest timber-sale prices, see our federal timber prices page (public-domain USFS data, with the Forest Service's caveat). See the glossary for the terms.
Standing live volume – all states
North Carolina highlighted. Billion cu ft, USDA Forest Service FIA.